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From:DAWN POSTON <br />To:GRP-City Council <br />Subject:Item 9.B Public Comment <br />Date:Sunday, July 26, 2026 7:53:34 AM <br />Some people who received this message don't often get email from jumperdawn@aol.com. Learn why this isimportant <br />Dear Council Members, <br />I have been a RWC rental property owner since 1981. I <br />provide clean, safe, well-maintained, reasonably priced homes <br />for three families. I work very hard to try to both keep rents <br />down and maintenance complete. I ask you to oppose 9.B as <br />the city’s very own analysis determined that the measure <br />reaches far beyond a rent cap and could have significant <br />consequences for rental housing operations, affordable <br />housing, city resources and long-term housing availability. <br />The reality of selling my property grows more attractive each <br />day. There are more and more state and local regulations, <br />more and more intrusions into my personal business, and more <br />and more headaches for me the owner. If I choose the reality <br />of selling, at today’s prices the new owner will be forced to <br />raise rents to pay the cost of the property. Maintenance <br />suffers, fewer people are willing to take on the headaches of a <br />landlord. Higher rents=fewer families can afford. My tenants <br />do not work in the high salaried tech industry. They are a <br />carpenter, a cook, a teacher, a forester-the kinds of people <br />RWC needs. <br />My grandparents and later my father lived in RWC for over 75 <br />years. I was born in Palo Alto and my first home was in RWC. <br />I’ve watched it change from the sleepy little friendly <br />affordable city to a costly large city. Housing is very difficult. <br />Please do not make it worse by adopting Item 9.B. Thank you. <br />Dawn Poston